Rhachiella, Aspöck & Aspöck & Johnson & Donga & Duelli, 2020

Aspöck, Ulrike, Aspöck, Horst, Johnson, James B., Donga, Trust Kasambala & Duelli, Peter, 2020, Rhachiella malawica gen. nov., spec. nov. from Malawi-another beauty of the Afrotropics (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae), Zootaxa 4808 (1), pp. 131-140 : 132

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:82D8C720-6938-4AF2-9186-491F07053EC8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4327851

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/996C842D-D937-FFE6-FF5D-FAEFD2C024A6

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Plazi

scientific name

Rhachiella
status

gen. nov.

Genus Rhachiella gen. nov.

Type species (by present designation): Rhachiella malawica spec. nov.

Diagnosis. Head with flat vertex, slightly inflated genae, scape twice as long as broad. Pronotum approximately rectangular. Apices of wings rounded. Radius and Media free to wing base. Male with penisfilum; female with pseudohypocaudae having two apical processes.

Description: With the characters of the type species.

Systematics: Rhachiella gen. nov. is the sister-group of Mucroberotha with the long penisfilum of the males as a synapomorphy. Rhachiberotha + (Mucroberotha + Rhachiella gen. nov.) constitute the sister-group of Hoel- zeliella.

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